codejobs - Clean HTML from a string - PHP

html.php

<?php
function cleanHTML($HTML) {
	$search = array ('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si',
					 '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si',
					 '@([\r\n])[\s]+@',
					 '@&(quot|#34);@i',
					 '@&(amp|#38);@i',
					 '@&(lt|#60);@i',
					 '@&(gt|#62);@i',
					 '@&(nbsp|#160);@i',
					 '@&(iexcl|#161);@i',
					 '@&(cent|#162);@i',
					 '@&(pound|#163);@i',
					 '@&(copy|#169);@i',
					 '@&#(\d+);@e');
	
	$replace = array('',
					 '',
					 '\1',
					 '"',
					 '&',
					 '<',
					 '>',
					 ' ',
					 chr(161),
					 chr(162),
					 chr(163),
					 chr(169),
					 'chr(\1)');
	
	$text = preg_replace($search, $replace, $HTML);	
	
	return $text;
}
?>